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Topic description:
Soft sci-fi emphasizes story, characters, and human or social questions rather than scientific detail. Technology and future worlds serve mainly as backdrop rather than fully worked-out systems. Moral choices, power, identity, and community often come to the fore. These works ask less how a machine works and more what it means to be human.

Category description:
Civilization shows how societies, cultures, and communities form, function, and evolve, including the rise, decline, or transformation of cities, states, and empires, often under the influence of technology and environment. Sci-fi is especially good at questioning our own society through future or alien civilizations. A civilization's fate often depends on the values and rules it upholds.

Civilization category
Rebuilding Civilizations in Post-Apocalyptic Worlds: A New Game Unveiled
Civilization
Rebuilding Civilizations in Post-Apocalyptic Worlds: A New Game Unveiled
Ancient Amazon Civilization Unveiled: The Secrets of Aquiry
Civilization
Ancient Amazon Civilization Unveiled: The Secrets of Aquiry
What If Earth Had Two Intelligent Species? A Dive into Alternate Evolution
Civilization
What If Earth Had Two Intelligent Species? A Dive into Alternate Evolution
Could Digital Immortality Make Death a Thing of the Past?
Civilization
Could Digital Immortality Make Death a Thing of the Past?

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Space weather

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ISS now

From Washington 5744 km

Altitude 423 km

50.84°, -2.8°

Washington sky

Sunrise 06:43

Sunset 19:27

Moon waning crescent (9% illumination)

Mars now

Earth–Mars distance 270.1 million km

Curiosity sol 4995 (2026-08-25)

Temperature -71…-5 °C

Pressure 777 Pa

Sky Sunny

UV index Moderate

Season Martian month 12

Mars Perseverance Sol 1973: Left Mastcam-Z Camera

Mars Perseverance Sol 1973: Left Mastcam-Z Camera

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Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole

Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole

Sources: Launch Library, NOAA, Open Notify, NASA (Curiosity/Perseverance), Open-Meteo, IP geo